Any recommendations on a dual processor MB? I'm building a new machine to use to run my Quake3 server, going to use AMD cpu - I'm interested in the idea of going SMP.
Right, I got a riva 128 with my machine a while back that supposedly had hardware mpeg decoder built in to play DVDs. I've never bought a DVD drive for my system so I've never tried this out. We get decent Linux support, and I'll run right out and get a drive!
"In Compaq's case, it took l5 senior programmers several months and cost $1 million to do the reverse engineering. In November 1982, Rod Canion unveiled the result."
>This must be a pretty smart 6 year old to reconnect the wires,
No, not really. I have a 6 yr old and he has a powerwheel vehicle probably similar to this. What it sound like is that the 6v battery connector was simply disconnected to keep shoppers' kids fom driving around (dumb, should have taken the battery out).
It is like plugging in a wall socket to reconnect the battery. My 6 yr old does this all the time since you have to unplug the battery to connect it to the charger, and then connect it back up when done charging. If this kid had ever used one of these, he would have no problem.
What is unnerving about all this is how he walked away from daycare and decided to go for a drive. I can't imagine my son even thinking to do something like this.
>Hey, wait a second. Back then they were probably using ordinary, unscrambled radio to communicate. I wonder if the HAM operators would have been able to talk to them.
This is in fact what I was wondering also. I remember some of the later missions, some people were monitoring transmissions direct from the moon. Almost certainly the Russians would have had some capability to monitor these transmissions as well, and would no doubt have been quite capable of releasing recordings of what really happened after "communications failure" happened, just to embarass the US space program.
Makes me wonder if they had a way to transmit a command to the LEM to turn off transmissions remotely. Although I agree with most of the posts here that have said this was probably necessary and reasonable for whatever reasons, it still rings kinda sinister and creepy that they would do it this way.
Excellent. I've always wondered about swaps since I've seen confusing information about this almost identical to what the original poster saw.
And now a follow-up question:
Can you/how do you make changes to your swap setup after your system is already installed?
I think I went with the "recommended" 2x RAM size way back when my machine only had 32Mb and one HD. Now I have 128Mb and I've upgraded my primary drive and have the old one set up as a slave for temp space for CD burning.
So if I'm running a 2.2.x kernel and a 64Mb swap partition, and say I wanted to make it 128Mb on the second drive, what would I need to do to change it?
This is certainly true where I work already. Generic coders are far less valuable than programmers who have "Subject Matter Expertise" in our particular speciality (Wireless Communications).
Its hard enough to find talented programmers, its hard to find people with specialized knowledge (business analyst, project managers), but it is next to impossible to get both in one person. Our only hope is to bring in a coder early on and hope that they stick around long enough to pick up the industry knowledge. Not much of what we do around here is straight coding, more high-level requirements analysis and design that ends up being coded at some point.
>I don't think anyone here is suggesting developing commercial desktop applications for Linux *instead of* Windows
Right. My point was that the *incremental* cost of porting an app to Linux probably cannot be easily justified (in most cases, I would guess) by increased revenue. The point about getting sales because an app *is* cross-platform is certainly valid, although that may be even harder to predict than just the size of a potential Linux commercial software market.
Corel is a different example because they do already have an established product, with dwindling win32 market share, that obviously was ported to other platforms. In their case it may have been an easier decision since the windows word-processor market is obviously dominated by the competition, so making a Linux port was probably an easy business case.
I guess all I'm saying is that it must be problematic for companies to justify development of Linux software in tandem with Win32 projects because of the uncertain market for commercial Linux products in general. I'm not sure that's the kiss of death, just an observation to go along with the point that the number of Linux users is not easily measured.
Interesting. Could the problem be also that some companies that develop software for windows don't *want* to believe that there is really a large Linux user base (market) out there? Is it possible that some of this denial might be because they don't want to have to port their software, increase their costs and cut into profits?
If I'm a successful software company and I write windows-only products, I have a known cost for developing and testing my software and a (pretty-well) known market for my product. I can forecast my sales revenue against my cost to produce the product and make a business case for Return On Investment.
But if that same company were to decide that there are 10 million potential customers for a Linux port, the business case may get a little hairy. Now your costs for development, testing and support are increased (not 2x, but by some factor). You probably have to decide if this increase in the cost to produce your product is warranted by the potential market increase.
If there is no reliable way to size a market for your product, it could be a tough sell to management based on the economics. Of course, a few companies (like id Software) have the luxury of putting economics on a lower priority than "doing the Right Thing", but this is the exception (for now).
This is exactly right. A half-dozen or so 3-5 rated comments with little or no -1 comments will get you an automatic +2 on every post (at least, at one point it did for me, guess I'll see if that's true anymore since I haven't posted in weeks).
What's that jack-ass wrech that Bob Villa sells for Sears? The auto-grip or some non-sense? Man, that wrench was just invented for POS "American" cars that have like 85% foreign (metric) parts in them!
This is pretty true for me also. I was a heavy coffee drinker until I ended up in the hospital for 3 months and was completely cut-off from any caffeine. When I got out, I had a couple of cups of coffee and felt *terrible*. I quit. I don't even take asprin/tylenol with caffeine if I can help it and I've never felt better in my life.
Well, I have a 6 year old who saw the movie and Jar Jar was put in the damn movie just for him, it seems. It made the biggest impression with him out of the whole movie. He had seen the original three movies on video and so was hooked into the whole Jedi scene and really digs Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon, but he thought Jar Jar was great.
Me, I'd love to see Jar Jar as a crater.
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Yeah, I thought I heard a long time ago (before RoTJ, even) that the emperor was a clone. That makes a lot of sense.
So.... Free software is just for other developers then? Seems like a big waste of time then to just write software that non-developers are not intended to use?
No, its not true. Did the article say this? I must admit I just started skimming after the "I chickened out but I'm going to write that its too hard to install anyway" comment, but I didn't see that one.
Hell, no - its not true. I had a little fun trying to get a postscript/ghostscript filter to work, but my little cannon bjc 600e is more than happy to print anything I send it. Hell, I use samba to allow the wife's windows box to print to it over my LAN, couldn't get windows to do it the other-way-round.
Scanners are supported, though I have no experience here. My HP scanner is USB to my wife's Windows box until Linux has better USB. But, there are tons of scanners listed in the hardware HOWTO.
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Any recommendations on a dual processor MB? I'm building a new machine to use to run my Quake3 server, going to use AMD cpu - I'm interested in the idea of going SMP.
hm, I guess I'm confusing 'mpeg playback' with decoding. Here is the stb velocity 128 spec sheet.
Right, I got a riva 128 with my machine a while back that supposedly had hardware mpeg decoder built in to play DVDs. I've never bought a DVD drive for my system so I've never tried this out. We get decent Linux support, and I'll run right out and get a drive!
Yes, exactly. According to "Triumph of the Nerds", Compaq did RE the BIOS.
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"In Compaq's case, it took l5 senior programmers several months and cost $1 million to do the reverse engineering. In November 1982, Rod Canion unveiled the result."
>This must be a pretty smart 6 year old to reconnect the wires,
No, not really. I have a 6 yr old and he has a powerwheel vehicle probably similar to this. What it sound like is that the 6v battery connector was simply disconnected to keep shoppers' kids fom driving around (dumb, should have taken the battery out).
It is like plugging in a wall socket to reconnect the battery. My 6 yr old does this all the time since you have to unplug the battery to connect it to the charger, and then connect it back up when done charging. If this kid had ever used one of these, he would have no problem.
What is unnerving about all this is how he walked away from daycare and decided to go for a drive. I can't imagine my son even thinking to do something like this.
>Hey, wait a second. Back then they were probably using ordinary, unscrambled radio to communicate. I wonder if the HAM operators would have been able to talk to them.
This is in fact what I was wondering also. I remember some of the later missions, some people were monitoring transmissions direct from the moon. Almost certainly the Russians would have had some capability to monitor these transmissions as well, and would no doubt have been quite capable of releasing recordings of what really happened after "communications failure" happened, just to embarass the US space program.
Makes me wonder if they had a way to transmit a command to the LEM to turn off transmissions remotely. Although I agree with most of the posts here that have said this was probably necessary and reasonable for whatever reasons, it still rings kinda sinister and creepy that they would do it this way.
Excellent. I've always wondered about swaps since I've seen confusing information about this almost identical to what the original poster saw.
And now a follow-up question:
Can you/how do you make changes to your swap setup after your system is already installed?
I think I went with the "recommended" 2x RAM size way back when my machine only had 32Mb and one HD. Now I have 128Mb and I've upgraded my primary drive and have the old one set up as a slave for temp space for CD burning.
So if I'm running a 2.2.x kernel and a 64Mb swap partition, and say I wanted to make it 128Mb on the second drive, what would I need to do to change it?
This is certainly true where I work already. Generic coders are far less valuable than programmers who have "Subject Matter Expertise" in our particular speciality (Wireless Communications).
Its hard enough to find talented programmers, its hard to find people with specialized knowledge (business analyst, project managers), but it is next to impossible to get both in one person. Our only hope is to bring in a coder early on and hope that they stick around long enough to pick up the industry knowledge. Not much of what we do around here is straight coding, more high-level requirements analysis and design that ends up being coded at some point.
>I don't think anyone here is suggesting developing commercial desktop applications for
Linux *instead of* Windows
Right. My point was that the *incremental* cost of porting an app to Linux probably cannot be easily justified (in most cases, I would guess) by increased revenue. The point about getting sales because an app *is* cross-platform is certainly valid, although that may be even harder to predict than just the size of a potential Linux commercial software market.
Corel is a different example because they do already have an established product, with dwindling win32 market share, that obviously was ported to other platforms. In their case it may have been an easier decision since the windows word-processor market is obviously dominated by the competition, so making a Linux port was probably an easy business case.
I guess all I'm saying is that it must be problematic for companies to justify development of Linux software in tandem with Win32 projects because of the uncertain market for commercial Linux products in general. I'm not sure that's the kiss of death, just an observation to go along with the point that the number of Linux users is not easily measured.
Interesting. Could the problem be also that some companies that develop software for windows don't *want* to believe that there is really a large Linux user base (market) out there? Is it possible that some of this denial might be because they don't want to have to port their software, increase their costs and cut into profits?
If I'm a successful software company and I write windows-only products, I have a known cost for developing and testing my software and a (pretty-well) known market for my product. I can forecast my sales revenue against my cost to produce the product and make a business case for Return On Investment.
But if that same company were to decide that there are 10 million potential customers for a Linux port, the business case may get a little hairy. Now your costs for development, testing and support are increased (not 2x, but by some factor). You probably have to decide if this increase in the cost to produce your product is warranted by the potential market increase.
If there is no reliable way to size a market for your product, it could be a tough sell to management based on the economics. Of course, a few companies (like id Software) have the luxury of putting economics on a lower priority than "doing the Right Thing", but this is the exception (for now).
This is exactly right. A half-dozen or so 3-5 rated comments with little or no -1 comments will get you an automatic +2 on every post (at least, at one point it did for me, guess I'll see if that's true anymore since I haven't posted in weeks).
Hmm, I *was* logged in, wasn't I?
erk, cough, gag, wheeze!
What a *horrible* concoction this is!
Yeech, rather drink battery-acid, I think!
What's that jack-ass wrech that Bob Villa sells for Sears? The auto-grip or some non-sense? Man, that wrench was just invented for POS "American" cars that have like 85% foreign (metric) parts in them!
What a disaster!
Oh, that sounds great! Gotta stop by the liquor store and then 7-11 on my way home tonite!
This is pretty true for me also. I was a heavy coffee drinker until I ended up in the hospital for 3 months and was completely cut-off from any caffeine. When I got out, I had a couple of cups of coffee and felt *terrible*. I quit. I don't even take asprin/tylenol with caffeine if I can help it and I've never felt better in my life.
Ever have a rum and coke?
or Jack Daniels and coke?
Well, you got me :OD
:-)
:-P
I typoed and left out an 's'
I'll still take a typo over not even knowing how the word is spelled at all any day.
And I did look it up (twice now)
hmm, I guess I'll throw out american heritige - I DID LOOK IT UP!
:-P
>lasses fair capatialists
nice looking girl capitalists?
...you mean Laisez Faire?
I think I know what your point is, but man do you look like an idiot the way you put this, dude.
Well, I have a 6 year old who saw the movie and Jar Jar was put in the damn movie just for him, it seems. It made the biggest impression with him out of the whole movie. He had seen the original three movies on video and so was hooked into the whole Jedi scene and really digs Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon, but he thought Jar Jar was great.
Me, I'd love to see Jar Jar as a crater.
Yeah, I thought I heard a long time ago (before RoTJ, even) that the emperor was a clone. That makes a lot of sense.
no, like mp3 encoders, wiseass :-P
So.... Free software is just for other developers then? Seems like a big waste of time then to just write software that non-developers are not intended to use?
>But wasn't Andover.net the place that we completely flamed for the really wrong story about Red Hat
Yup, that was the Jack Bryar [sp?] 'Charity Case for RedHat' story a couple weeks ago that was posted over at Andover News.
It was funny tho, I got a couple e-mails that day from someone at Andover.net - they thought the whole situation was funny.
I think Jack's non-Andover e-mail got the brunt of the flames anyway.
>Linux has no printer and scanner support?
No, its not true. Did the article say this? I must admit I just started skimming after the "I chickened out but I'm going to write that its too hard to install anyway" comment, but I didn't see that one.
Hell, no - its not true. I had a little fun trying to get a postscript/ghostscript filter to work, but my little cannon bjc 600e is more than happy to print anything I send it. Hell, I use samba to allow the wife's windows box to print to it over my LAN, couldn't get windows to do it the other-way-round.
Scanners are supported, though I have no experience here. My HP scanner is USB to my wife's Windows box until Linux has better USB.
But, there are tons of scanners listed in the hardware HOWTO.